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Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $27.03A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.93Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In... -
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $18.61In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky 9780226549330
Booksplease Price: $28.37Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In... -
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague by Robert Zaretsky 9780226803494
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Homesteader to Art Collector: The Life and Times of Jacob Greenberg by Robert Zaretsky 9781957588186
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $24.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue by Robert Zaretsky 9780803218383
Booksplease Price: $27.13In the French Camargue-the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania-the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this... -
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Robert D. Zaretsky 9780801479076
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into... -
Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology by Tzvetan Todorov
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the... -
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Robert D. Zaretsky 9780801448058
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into... -
The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9781509558193
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.98Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have... -
Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution by David A Bell
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $21.94"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament... -
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus 9780691177717
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135... -
Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $28.02In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More... -
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Alice Kaplan 9780226833309
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $15.88States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed... -
The Double Life of Paul De Man by Evelyn Barish 9781631490057
Booksplease Price: $21.65Over thirty years after his death in 1983, Paul de Man, a hugely charismatic intellectual who created with deconstruction an ideology so pervasive that it threatened to topple the very foundations of... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Costica Bradatan 9780674297203
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.65A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." -Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read." Tom Holland... -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $20.30More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought...